Avocado hair mask

Avocados are for eating right? Wrong!!!!! Avocados are not only delicious but also great for our hair. It helps will many things such as hair growth, adding shine and making your hair feel very soft. It also hydrates your hair and helps to repair damage.

This mask is very simple to make and being all natural it is great to use. Purchasing an avocado will cost a fraction of the amount you would pay for other hair treatments or visiting the salon. So maybe give it a try. However I must advise that washing it out of your hair can be a tedious task. I find this method works best for me ( I even use this method when I have put oil on my hair - my hair gets clean super quickly and it doesn't leave any of the oil behind ) before you wet your hair, massage your shampoo into your scalp and about 1/3 of your hair from the roots. When you rinse the shampoo off the shampoo, the water will run down the rest of your hair with the shampoo and remove any other residual left behind. This also helps in not drying out your hair. When you doing the avocado treatment you might have to give it a few rinses to get all that avocado out. but believe me it is well worth it.

Making the mask is simple because it only needs two ingredients,

Homemade Avocado hair mask

1/2 or 1 whole soft avocado( depending on your hair length)
1tbspn coconut oil heated

As you can see these avocados were a very ripe. It helps to mash it with a fork.

Add the heated coconut oil and mix well.  

Remember to apply it from the roots to the tips of your hair. As you can see it is a messy job, I would suggest you do it in the bathroom or outside.

Once applied it should it should be left in for about 15-minutes longer if you have the time. I usually put on a shower cap and continue with my all the things I need to do.

Hope this helps. It works wonders on my hair. I have very curly hair and I tend to use a hair straightener quite often. This mask is a treatment my hair definitely deserves.

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Till next time
xoxo
Sam

Homemade coffee scrub

Recently, I've been doing a lot of reading up about using natural or homemade skin and hair treatments. There are literally over thousands of recipes online. And so I decided to make this my first post. 

This is one of the first things I tried out and boy was I happy with the results. It is a homemade coffee body scrub. Honestly I wasn't too precise with my measurements so this is roughly what I used I did adapt it a bit by adding jojoba oil. Which I had lying around. If you have not heard about this oil it is pronounced as ho-ho-ba and is great for skin. It helps with conditions like acne and sunburn. But if you don't have it don't stress. This scrub will remove all the dead skins cells and the coffee is suppose to reduce the appearance of cellulite. I guess you will have to do quite a few treatments to see this. But after my first time using this scrub my skins was very soft and smooth. 

Home made body scrub recipe

1/2 cup fresh coffee grounds(took this out of my coffee machine after I had made some coffee)
1/4 cup brown sugar or white if you don't have brown
1 tblspn of raw honey( I heated mine till it was a runny consistency)
1 tblspn of Olive oil
few drops of jojoba oil(optional)

 This is how the scrub will look like once you are done:)

This is the coffee grounds.

I used brown sugar but white will work just as well. Just be sure not to be too rough when you are using this scrub as the sugar can be abrasive.

Raw honey

I heat the honey a little till it is this liquid consistency which helps to mix it. I then added the oils and gave it a good stir. I usually make this as a single batch and use it in one go. I'm going to make a bit extra and see how long it lasts for.

Your body will feel moisturized and soft just remember when applying the scrub rub it in a circular motion.

PS: this can be quite a messy job so be sure to do it in the shower or bath tub.

Till next time

xoxo
Samantha